时间:2019-01-30 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(八月)


英语课
By Steve Herman
New Delhi
17 August 2007
 

India was once thought to have the world's highest number of people with HIV -- the virus that causes AIDS. But the estimate was recently reduced by more than half -- down to 2.5 million from 5.7 million. The reduction, however, does not mean India is relaxing its fight against the epidemic 1. VOA's Steve Herman reports from New Delhi.






Health officials in India have an estimated 2.5 million cases of HIV and AIDS to deal with currently


Health officials in India have an estimated 2.5 million cases of HIV and AIDS to deal with currently



Officials say improved counting methods lowered the estimate of the number of Indians infected with the AIDS-causing virus. The new estimate means that India has fewer cases than South Africa or Nigeria.


The country coordinator 2 here for the Joint 3 United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS, Dr. Denis Broun, says the new number is no reason to be less vigilant 4.


"You are not going to tell people that it's safe to go and see sex workers without condoms because it's 2.5 million, not 5.7 million,” says the doctor. “Prevention policy is still the same. People still need to know about HIV, still need to be educated about HIV, they still need to use condoms in safe sex. They still need to have prevention of injecting drug use."







Dr. Denis Broun





Dr. Denis Broun



But no one really knows for certain how many of India's 1.1 billion people are HIV positive.


Dr. Broun added, "People hesitate to be tested for HIV. Just asking for an HIV test is sometimes a way of being stigmatized 5. People are not well considered and not treated in a humane 6 manner in many hospitals. They are discriminated 7 against by the health professionals."


Risky 8 sex by migrant workers, truck drivers, students and others is spreading the virus, and in some parts of the country illicit 9 use of injected drugs is a growing problem.






Ashok Alexander


Ashok Alexander



Ashok Alexander is the director of Avahan, the India AIDS initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He contends that such a huge country cannot effectively combat the disease if the fight is left just to the government.


"Government has a primary role to play, but media has a huge role to play, societal leaders have a tremendous role to play. There are people in India, whether they are Bollywood stars or cricket -- sports -- leaders, a single word reaches millions of people at one time," he says.


The government is sharply increasing the amount of money it spends fighting AIDS -- by nearly 40 times -- to almost $2 billion. An additional billion dollars will come from overseas donors 10.


The priority is on prevention, rather than treatment.






An AIDS patient


An AIDS patient



Despite a pledge by India's government to treat 100,000 HIV-positive people for free by the end of this year, progress is slow. Only 10 to 15 percent of those who need anti-retroviral treatments are receiving them.


Ashok Alexander of the Gates Foundation's India AIDS initiative says, "HIV unfortunately affects the most marginalized and the poorest populations first and for them to spend $100 or more per month is completely out of the question. In fact, a disease such as HIV can put a family into debt for generations."


The prognosis for India remains 11 sobering. Despite the lowered estimate, few experts doubt that millions of people here will develop AIDS in the years ahead. That will prove to be a significant challenge for India, where the goal of providing the most basic health care to the vast number of rural and urban poor remains unfulfilled.




n.流行病;盛行;adj.流行性的,流传极广的
  • That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
  • The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
n.协调人
  • The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下,负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
  • How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室?
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
adj.警觉的,警戒的,警惕的
  • He has to learn how to remain vigilant through these long nights.他得学会如何在这漫长的黑夜里保持警觉。
  • The dog kept a vigilant guard over the house.这只狗警醒地守护着这所房屋。
v.使受耻辱,指责,污辱( stigmatize的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He was stigmatized as an ex-convict. 他遭人污辱,说他给判过刑。 来自辞典例句
  • Such a view has been stigmatized as mechanical jurisprudence. 蔑称这种观点为机械法学。 来自辞典例句
adj.人道的,富有同情心的
  • Is it humane to kill animals for food?宰杀牲畜来吃合乎人道吗?
  • Their aim is for a more just and humane society.他们的目标是建立一个更加公正、博爱的社会。
分别,辨别,区分( discriminate的过去式和过去分词 ); 歧视,有差别地对待
  • His great size discriminated him from his followers. 他的宽广身材使他不同于他的部下。
  • Should be a person that has second liver virus discriminated against? 一个患有乙肝病毒的人是不是就应该被人歧视?
adj.有风险的,冒险的
  • It may be risky but we will chance it anyhow.这可能有危险,但我们无论如何要冒一冒险。
  • He is well aware how risky this investment is.他心里对这项投资的风险十分清楚。
adj.非法的,禁止的,不正当的
  • He had an illicit association with Jane.他和简曾有过不正当关系。
  • Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year.今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
a little rust on the leaves
accuriz ing
advertizes
aircooler
anderson br-ldge
application scope
argument of synthetic job
baguets
Bajang
bakus
bar-b-que
batch leaching
be of an age
before all
bernards
boundary layer thickness Reynolds number
center of a sample
cevadic acid
cholangetis
circulator failure
closed-loop policy
common ownership of the means of production
complex reaction time
concave grating spectrometer
course/speed computer
cyclarbamate
diamantion
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dja
door - to - door service
ed damer (ad damir)
ehis
electrostatic image tube
Eocretaceous
Fiordland penguin
flew about
flux induction
flywhisk
four laws of black hole mechanics
gambi
genus zaglossuss
hadassa
half cheese antenna
heat pump plant annual utilisation period
hemiparaplesia
high pulp
horizontal corrdinates
hypokalemias
i-holen
inch system screw thread
incorporated broker
ionicity parameter
katoptrite(catoptrite)
lilac colour
magazine cock
managerial roles approach
micro lens array
Microceratops
misqualified
movable substructure
mtwapa
navel-contemplation
noncharacteristic curve
operator support system
organic fertilizer
organization plan
outstanding contribution
panchromate
papilloma of pharynx
parrel truck
philosophical linguistics
pische
plant cytogenetics
portal lobule
portia trees
preferred route
privilege access
Qal'eh-ye Seyyed
recovery clustering algorithm
reduced-rates
remote continual verification system
rerendered
self-destructing email
sleeping with
stimulation fatigue
support barge
surfridings
synchs
TcHHWI
tenderisation
thomas gage
to adjourn the meeting
top-fired burner
tuberculosis of colon
violent earthquake
visual disorder
waveshaping circuit
wickedly
x ray holography
x-radiographies
zeroizes
zick